Emma Watson Quotes
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.
